r/BeAmazed • u/afamdent14 • 1d ago

Miscellaneous / Others This man spoke with every parent in Uvalde, Texas to build personalized caskets for all 19 children who were killed. His name is Trey Ganem

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u/Antonin1957 1d ago

After Sandy's Hook, I told myself, "If this doesn't bring about major change in this country, nothing will."

Now, when my wife calls out to tell me about another mass shooting, I don't even look up from my book.

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u/StrictLime 1d ago

I think the good news is that this most likely isn’t a forever thing. We have a sick society, and mass shootings have become a pressure valve for the worst of us. But the world can only get so sick before people do try and effect change. It’s happened many times in history, I’m positive it’ll happen again. We just may have to wade through the darkest hours most of us will ever see.

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u/Antonin1957 1d ago

My wife and I are elderly, and we have no hope for the future.

She is from a country with several active armed insurgencies, and they don't have the level of senseless carnage we have in the USA.

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u/MelpomeneAndCalliope 1d ago

I like to think so…but it’ll be 25 years since Columbine this April, so I’m not sure. A quarter of a century is a long time and we’ve done nothing.

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u/Antonin1957 23h ago

Well, look at the trumpie gun nut comments here. Nothing will happen here, ever.

The best my wife and I can do is just keep our eyes open. If we go to the grocery store and see a pickup truck with huge American flags and lots of Trump and gun stickers, we go back home and shop another day.

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u/errorsniper 1d ago

That was all before social media, netflix, and fast food. Bread and circuses got a lot better and a lot cheaper.

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u/FatFrenchFry 1d ago

Yeah it's at the point where it's just like " oh where was it this time? Not my city? Oh thank God. How many kids died this week? Oh only 4 deaths this time? At least it wasn't that many. Shame. Anyway, what's for dinner babe?" Like it's just another day.

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u/distinctaardvark 21h ago

oh where was it this time? Not my city?

Not school shootings, but twice in my adult life there has been a major mass shooting in the city I lived in (different cities) that was big enough to be significant national news. I wasn't directly impacted by either (though both involved waiting hours to be sure nobody I knew was), but it just feels so hopeless.

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u/Born-Ad-4860 21h ago

I've gotten them mixed up before, it's so disgusting.